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ft want which tho ladls of tho town and
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1
TWO MINUTES TOO LA.TE.
With Ii i 3 poorl bye rinir.p; !n her
ears, lrucio rimer re-entered tno lit
tle telegraph office, aud dropped into
tho chair before tho clicking instru
ment. Glancing at tho clock abovo
her had, plie notice'! that it was nl-
niotit titua tor her to close the oihrte for
the night, and seek her humble homo
nt the foot of one ot the darkened
streets of tho village. The rumbling
of the train which had just lft the sta
tion was growing fainter and fainter,
and the girl listened to it as though it
was the v-eice of r friend who was leav
ing her for a long time.
iSho did not expect any more mes
sages that night; the engine breathing
heavily from it great iron lungs on
the track near her wiudow would not
move until the night express had pass
ed up, and the engineer, knowing this,
had Bought his Bweetbsart, who lived
in toe villago.
Tom Gray, the engineer of the train
just departiug, was Drucie s lover, and
his intimate friends knew when the
wedding was to take place. He had
not known her long, but that 'did not
matter, pince he was a true fellow,who
loved her with all his heart, and with
all hers she loved Tom.
The rumble of tho train at length
died away, and Drucia was about to
shut off the current and leave the of
fice when a message began to fall upon
her ears.
Shettarted, for the first word drove
tho color from her cheek?, and stand
ing over the instrument ehe heard this
message :
''Number ten f.oilch at Colby till num
ber ,iix passes. Six just starling!"
"Six just Etartiuy ! My God ! They
will meetl" cried tho beautiful opera
tor, starting from the table. "VVhat
can I do to save hiui them?" .
And with her eyes staring at the
clock, she stood in tho center of the
room, thinkiog of the two trains ap
proaching each other through the mist
that almost hid the moon.
Tho real situatiou, enough to blanch
a young girl's cheeks, was most appal
ling. The order for the traiu which had
but just left Fletcher to switch at
Colby could not be obeyed now. The
telegraph, even, could not stop it, for
there was no night office at Colby. It
was an unusual matter for number six
to leave Fott Wayne before the arri
val of number ten ; but as the latter
train was some minutes behind timeou
that particular night, six, anxious to
leave on time, to save its connection?,
telegraphed to Fletcher the rues
sago which had so startled Drucie
Miller. From Fletcher to a point four
miles below Colby the Company had
completed a double track, which, when
finished to Fort Wayne, would obviate
the trouble (i switclnug and prevent
trouble.
When Drucie recovered her self-possession
she started from the office with
the message in her hand. It had ar
rived just two iniuutcs too late, and.
Tom Gray, unconscious of its existence
was driving hU engine ahead and
thinking'of tho girl he had lately kiss
ed adieu. II knew that it was known
in Fort Wayne that he was unavoida
bly behind time, and thought that ac
cording to custom the express, waiting
there, would not move out until he ar
rived.
But let us return to Drucie Miller.
She saw tho freight eDgiue standing
od the new track already mentioned
and caught a glimpse of the young fire
man asleep on bis box.
A determined resolution entered ber
head, and the next moment she was in
the engine cab with her hand on the
boy's shou'der.
"That you, Miss Drucie t said tbe
bov, rousing himself with a yawu.
"Laws a mercy
"Get out and uncouple the freight!"
she cried. "Tom's moved out, and if
he doesn't switch at Colby everybody
will be killed. Wo must catch him !
The boy with a rry of horror left the
eugiue, and a minute later mo ireigui
cars were standing idly on the track
while the engine and its tender were
moving out, gaining momentum at each
revolution of the wheel.
"What'll Dick say when he comes
back and finds his engine gone?" said
the boy, looking up into Drueie's face.
"What do wo tmre what he says?
What is Dick to tho precious lives on
the two trains? Jim, how fust can
your engino' travel ?"
"About two miles a miuute!" the
boy answered wiMi a smile. "Sho's the
swiftest bird on the mid. Hut I don't
think wo can ratch No. 10 ; wo mi-hf
if we had Dick with us. Ho knows
how to manage the Belle."
"And so do I. Wood up, Jim. Fill
the furnace chock full. We rv.i.-t
catch Tom this side of the iiew truck's
terini OU9, nr "
The rirl na.iM-d ami looked at the
pi
!e I
uoy.
'Or what, Miss Drucie?'
"Or IhiK up !"
"That's what'? tha mattor!'' 6id Jin
catching ber spi ri t. "And we'll catch
him, tool Wood I Wood! There I tho
furnace is chock full. Golly whiz!
how we are going !"
-Drucie smiled faintly at the boy and
noted t he hand of the gauge. The en
gine had received new momentum,
which momentarily increased, and all
at once Jim, who had been trying to
pierce the haze, sai 1 :
"Two miles a miuute, I'll bet, Miss
Drucie 1 If it was daylight tho tele
graph poles would resemble a fine tooth
comb."
But tho girl did not reply. She
stood at the lever, wishing that she
could urge the engine to greater speed.
She had calculated that the two trains
would meet iu a gulch that embraced
a curve about six miles below (Jul by.
It was a terrible place for a collision,
ami tho of life there would be
great, ir.e hazo or mist would pro
vent the engineers fr.jrn signalling each
other, and a collision was inevitable.
The engine, which seemed to have
broken loose, rushed mad'y on, wilh
Jim looking at Drucie, whom, ho wa
inclined to believe mad. Tho cold
mist, slowly turning to a drizzle, was
occasional !y blown against his face by
the wind ; it served to cool his heated
temples, and to make him think calm
ly of his situation and the folks at
home. So fast were the
they seemed to glide over the rails,
scarcely tbuching them in their mad
career, and when Drucie told Jim to
listen for the sound of Tom's train
ahead, the boy poked his head out of
the window aud hold his breath.
" 'Pears to me I heard a sound," he
?aid, without turning his head. "Mebbe
I'm mistaken so many things 'pear to
me iust now.
"Thank God 1" ejaculated tho girl,
"listen with all your might, Jim. Oh,
for tho speed ot a bullet !
Her face was glowing with heat, and
while Jim listened the threw open the
furnace door and threw in the Inst stick
of wood thev possessed.
"The wood's gone, Jim. How far
yet can we go at this rat of speed ?"
"About fifteen miles," the boy an
swered "twenty of'ern, if we must do
it."
"Then we'll catch him. Colby must
be nine mile3 away yet, and the gulch
is six miles further on fifteen miles!
Jim, can't you hear him yet?"
"No ; guess I was mistaken awhile
hack," the bov said, aud Drueie's face
fell.
"There's the sound ayain !" he ex
claimed, a minute later. "Lirten for
yourself, gitd."
Drucie went to the window and put
her head out.
"That's Tom I" she cried. "Oh,
Heaven, let me save him and all the
other pvecioua lives to-night 1"
With this prayer she turned to tho
furnace again and smiled at the red hot
door3. The engine and its empty ten
der seemed to fly over the track, and
when Drucie looked at Jim.agaiu she
found him staring at the gauge.
"What s the matter, Jim ? she ask
ed. He came, forward with hand ex
tended toward the little ijstrumf-nt.
"A little more fire and we'll blow
up !" ha gasped.
"Tom would hear tho explosion and
stop his train.". That might prevent
the collision !" was Drueie's reply.
It was now evident that the sound
ahead was that of Tom Gray's train,
and the girl prepared to warn her lov
er of liis danger. The tracks were
quite close, and she told the fire boy to
watch tha machinery while she attend
ed to that part of the warning work
which she had allotted to herself.
With pallid face and almost throb
less heart, she took up her station at
tho window, heeding not tho drizzling
rain that heat into her face, and await
ed the decisive moment.
The sound of the train oa ' tho other
track grew momentarily more distinct,
and the darinrr trirl fancied that sho
hoard number six coming through the
valley below Colby.
Yes, it is Tom !" she cried, to en
courage tho bov at tho lever. "I see hie
light." Now !""
Then she leaned out oftho window,
and shouted at the top of her voice :
"f.wihdi at Colby ! Switch at Colby !
Colby, six! Colby, six!"
Many times she repeated her err,
aud all at once 6he dashed by the
heavy train.
Ilight into her lover's face as he
leaned from his engine ehe ehe shvite
"Switch at
shrieks that
Coll.
and
n h ! r i I tne
he would
. i
told
her
that
obey.
"Saved ! saved, Jim
he cried with
V, turning upon t he hn ;i t h'.eM boy
who already w:n r-heckini' the Belle's
. j
speed.
"Golly whiz!" lie said, laughing.
"If v.e can ever fctop the Belle, we will
go back ; but lh" girl's got her )iink
up and would run nn forevt-i !"
Drnoe Miller rMrn d t th wis
dow with a heart lH-d whh thankf il-ne-fs,
for Tom h.id hetrd, si.d already
was running onto the switch at Colby.
Belle wa gt tin
ler control and backed with lessened
fires.
'Listen !" suddenly cried Jim.
"Yes, number six is corning ; but we
don't fear her now 1" said Drucie, with
a smile. "Tom and his passengers are
bale on tho switch."
Ttii next moment number six dash
ed bv, and Drucie laughed and actu
ally clappe.d her hands.
1 ha meeting between lorq Gray and
h'13 love cannot be described.
"Your head light seemed a meteor,"
he said to her ; "and I knew your voice
I don't know why. I guess you
mado time coming down."
"Time," cried Jim, "I don't think
tho wheels touched tho rails more than
half the time. If it had been day, the
mile stones would havo looked liko a
rake.".
X hero was a laugh at the boy s ex
aggjration, aud when Tom took Dru
cie asido he kissed hsr.
It was not tliooiily kiss' she got that
night, for ail the women on tha train
kissed the girl who had saved their
lives, aud Tom Gray eaid he wouldn't
get jealous when the monstached pas
sengers bout over Drucie, blushing
like a rose.
The story of Drueie's feat crept iuto
the papers and though my story may
be old to some of my readers, I have
told it because I bclicre it will bear
repetition. . '
Dick Lambert furgave Drucie for
running away with his engine, and
Jim, the fire boy, never grows weary
of telling of that "run."
Tom Gray is still on the road, but
Drucie does not listen to the click
click of the sounder any more. Every
night at eight she hol-Js a Utile hoy
up to the window, and he cries "papa,"
and claps his little hniiclj s an engine
dashes by.
The Revival of an Obsolete Pastime.
In these days, when polo and lawn
tennis and croquet are so popular, and
everybody is racking his brains to in
vent a new game with which to amuse
the youth of America, we should like
to suggest the revival of a pastime that
was much in vogue among a former
generation. It is sad to think that
such u healthy and lively means of
pleasure should have gone out of fash
ion as much as it has, and that only
unpretentious persons in out-of-the-way
phices devote themselves to it. It is
a spring and autumn amusement de
signed for the country. To play thu
game iuirly requires a tweuty-acro lot.
Each player needs, to begin with, a
team of good horses and a very pecu-liar-lonkingchariot
which cuts through
the sod with iU sharp point, and has
only one wheel at I lie side to htrve
rather to guide it3 course than aid in
its running. Tho driver hangs on be
hind, laying hold of two light handles
which project in the rear for his con
venience. The rate of progress across
a field is ot necessity slow, but the
course is very exciting, especially
where the ground is stony, in which
case the driver, tying the reins of the
horses about his waist, is compelled to
viso great dexterity uml- strength to
keep his ch;' riot in its proper furrow
and is jolted lika a couplo of lovers
sitting on a buckboard. The game
consists in traversing the field from
one side to auother, day alter day, un
til the whole surface is overturned,
when the crrouud presents a series of
long, regular ridges of clay, drying iu
tin sun and looking deeolato but ex
trcme'y pictutosque. liiis sport is so
fascinattug that those addicted to it
continue at it from sunrise to sunset,
scarcely taking intenniasioos for tlu-ir
meal?, and they grow brown, hardy
and manly with the exercise. lopre
narc the Held for the continuance of
the game is a work of great, pains and
no little time. 1 ho monotonous ridges
of brown or rtllow clay have to bo
broken down to au even surface, aud
to effect this nn ingenious instrument,
called a harrow, has been invented,
which is a frame set viib a great num
bvr of iron t eth. When this is drag
ged rapidly backward
over tho field it reduces
and fhrwari
it in time to a
pleasant level plain marked with deli
cate wrinkles. It is then ncecssay to
spriuklo in the ground some cereal,
such as wheat, oats or barley, in or
der that by means ot a new growth
preparation for another soil may be
laid. And when this grain crop i
down thft prtjund is iu such a ooBdi
lion that it will be ready for a renew
ly cf the gane during the next tftsufl.
In this prosaic description We have
aimed mend r at giviug :i definite idea
f the
sport, and
have
avoided
any
idle ditquisitioi s on its bi-autii-s. Suf
fice it to my that wheu it was popular
iln; whde loiiutry blorsonied like the
r fi-. and t:ie foundations of our proa-,,,-iiiV
eiv laid, and if our young
r.'id i be induced to take up this
.,(,. 1 , s v pastime ugaiu and deBUd from
fi t uii.g u ci.ir.s ior more ar'ificial
i!i:u. i r.n-iits, .pending their precio .s
.o m'MiKr travrls tiid squandering
their epars cash iu Enropeuu tours in-
stead of investing it at home, some
thing of the old-fashioned contentment;
might return to .tha Iind. The pafi
sio for pleasure and dissipation has
gone through all classes and driven
the people into wild find unwise ex
travigances, wherefore wo should he
glad to see the popular tendencies tako
a more wholesome direction, aud earn
estly recommend tha rival plowing
among all such yoimg Americans as
have leisure and opportunity to in
dulge in that noble pursuit. X. Y.
World.
How tho Montenegrins Fight. .
In tho campaign of last year tho
Turks lost about ten to one against tho
Montenegrins. From the mountain
summits overlooking Podgoritza and
the approaches from Scutari, their
scouts eignalized the advanco cf tho
Ottoman army. From peak to peak
signal fires by r.ight aunounccd tho
coming of the foe, while by day mount
ed troopei3 sped to every district to
rally the people to the defense of the
threatened frontier. On they came,
men, women and children, every one
that could carry a gun, roll rocks on
tho head of the enemy, or assist in the
building of lutreuchments. The Turks
were allowed to enter for a certain dis
tance in the passes, until they reached
the narrow gorge. I hero they louod
their progress arrested by massive
walta of rock and stone, stretching
from side to side, completely blocking
up the road, pierced with embrasures
for cannon and musket holes. A halt
is called. A council of war determino
that retreat is impossible, and that the
iutrenohments must be carried. At first
it was au artillery engagement. Un
der the emoko of tho cannonade an
assault is ordered. Forward dash tho
Turkish troops, with the blind fury
that characterizes them in the field.
The Montenegrin fire having lulled,
supposing that is was a sign of yield
ing, the lurk3 hurry forward with,
cries and yells as if sure of their prey.
Hardly havo they got within twenty
feet of the intrenchments, before from
every opening in them pours a stream
of incessant fare of shell, shot, mime-
balls, and all kinds of deadly missiles.
Suddenly the top of the rampart. is
crowned with Bharpcbootors, whose
steady aim picks off the officers and
mows down tho heads ot tho columns.
On the overlooking heights armed
men, women and children appear.
Enfilading volleys tear the shattered
ranks from above, aud hugo bowlders
and rocks come rolling down the prec
ipices, cruchuig into the midst oi tho
serried masses aud laying low thou
bands of combatants. AH this wddlo
the air is rent with tlio shouts of iho
mountaineers; the Banner of tho Cross
is waved defiantly from on high mid
on tlie works, priests, with the crucifix
displayed on their robes, pointing to it
as a sign of hope and ' victory. Alter
repeated onsets, their ranks broken,
their ofiicers, for the most part, slain,
the Turks begin to waver. As soon
as this is perceived the enthusiasm of
the Montenegrins can no longer be
restrained. Ovbr the ramparts they
lcapand with in Jescribable fury they
charge, bayonet and sword in haud,
on thu disordered masses before them.
For a moment the Turks stand at bay,
but as tho deafening clamor souuds
like a continuooa roll of thunder, and
in rear and flank they are assailed by
unseen enemies that have descondod
by secret paths from the top of tho
mountain walls, and in front by the
regular troops, they break and run.
Then cornea tho hour of vengeance.
For miles the pass is strewed with
heaps of Turkish ."lain. Whoever turns
to fight finds himself face to face with
a squad of foes who leave him no
chance of escape. No quarter is fiv
t'u ; blood flaws in torrciitd ; it becomes
a pitiless massacre; ody a remnant
is left to tell the tale of disaster add
woe, and to carry dismay into the Al
banian fastnesses. With thanksgiving
to God for the triumph vouchsafed to
their arms, tho Montenegrins sheath
thir bloodied bwords, and homeward
turn loaded with captured arms and
precious spoils. This is u picture of
the mode of Montenegrin fightiug as
described to me by a participant in
one of tin worst defeats the Turks ev
er encountered at their hands. Con-
8tavtinople Cor. Philadelphia Frees.
When a boy has been oft' nil day,
contrary to the express wish of his
mother, aud on approaching the home
6eud ut night, with an anxious and
cautious tread, finds company at tea,
the expression of confidence and rec
titude which suddenly light- "P his
face cannot bo reproduce! on cauvas.
"Don't put too rouni confidence ia
a lover's voW3 mid M2ds," naid Mrs.
FaitiiiL-ton to her ni.-ce ; "Id him tell
you that you have lip
rie- arid c 'e un. cheeks
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